Perseverance is an original sci-fi ship creation and designated as a Battlecruiser. All connections and colors in this build are designed to be buildable with physical bricks. Ship is designed in scale. All suggestions and critiques are highly appreciated! She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection for US naval task groups, Atlanta served in this capacity in the naval battles Midway and the Eastern Solomons.
Atlanta was heavily damaged by Japanese and friendly gunfire in a night surface action on 13 November during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The cruiser was sunk on her captain's orders in the afternoon of the same day. Atlanta, in some works, is designated CLAA because of her primary armament as an anti-aircraft cruiser. However, her entire battery of 5-inch mm guns were dual-purpose DP guns, and were capable of being used against both air and surface targets, able to fire anti-aircraft, high-explosive and armor-piercing shells.
The Atlanta-class ships were lightly armored, making them poor surface combatants compared to a typical light cruiser. In terms of armament, the Atlanta class was closer to a destroyer, being armed with 5-inch guns, than a light cruiser, which were generally equipped with 6-inch guns; but at well over feet m in length, and combined with their large battery of sixteen 5-inch mm guns reduced to twelve in number for later ships of the class , they were designated as light cruisers.
Typical destroyers of the time only carried five or six 5-inch guns. Jenkins in command. Atlanta was fitted with eight twin 5-inch gun turrets, placed in a unique configuration. She had three forward turrets and three aft turrets, mounted inline and increasing in height toward the midships, giving her a symmetrical appearance, with a "gap" in the middle superstructure. In addition, the aft battery also had one "wing-mounted" turret on each side, for a total of 16 five-inch guns.
Because Atlanta was able to bring all her guns to bear only within that narrow arc, her ability to engage surface targets was limited. Her firing arcs were ideally suited to bringing her guns to bear on an aircraft, however, with a minimum of six guns available from any angle.
